Burnsville,
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It was a very run down, and easily the poorest of the Burnsville theaters in terms of quality and popularity. It was always dirty and very small. Ironically, it was the last of the three movie houses in Burnsville Center’s parking lot to close down. Rocco Altobelli and Game Room Gallery now reside there currently.

UA’s Burnsville operation was split between The Movies 1-4 inside the mall, adjacent to JC Penny, and the Movies 5-8 in the parking lot. 1-4 opened with the mall in 1977, 5-8 in 1983. Each cinema had one DTS equipped auditorium at their closing, neither UA or Regal had upgraded the cinemas any further than that.

I would believe that 1-4 had projection booths behind each auditorium, elevated just above seating level. 1-4 used Bauer projectors and Prime Energy backwards-spinning platters. 5-8 had an upstairs booth with Century projectors & ORC platters & consoles.

1-4 was particularly crowded because the entrance from the box office, concession lines, bathroom lines & exit pathways all converged on the same space. For years, this theatre was overattended & packed. 5-8 was only slightly better; the lobby was still shoulder-to-shoulder on busy nights.

Both buildings had awful earth-tones throughout. The mall had a huge marquee sign erected on county road 42 for the life of theater that was always hard to read & often sloppy. Truly an example of a run down little mall theatre in each case.